Oreodytes
Oreodytes is a genus of beetles in the family Dytiscidae, containing the following species:
Udo Schmidt · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DeronectinaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.
8 occurrences of Oreodytes on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
8 occurrences- Oligocene13%
- Pleistocene88%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
3 formations
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The named rock units Oreodytes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Oreodytes and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Oreodytes and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
799 taxa- Agabus4 sites
- Bembidion4 sites
- Chrysolina4 sites
- Hydroporus4 sites
- Pterostichus (Cryobius)4 sites
- Aegialia (Psammoporus) terminalis3 sites
- Amara3 sites
- Arctopsyche ladogensis3 sites
- Bledius3 sites
- Carabidae3 sites
- Curculionidae3 sites
- Cyriophthalmus variegatus3 sites
- Dytiscidae3 sites
- Eucnecosum3 sites
- Grypus equiseti3 sites
- Gyrinus3 sites
- Ilybius3 sites
- Notaris acridulus3 sites
- Olophrum3 sites
- Pterostichus (Lenapterus) vermiculosus3 sites
- Stenus3 sites
- Tachinus elongatus3 sites
- Acidota quadrata2 sites
- Agabus (Agabus) bifarius2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Oreodytes, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
4 references- Palaeoentomology of the Kap København Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland5
- The paleoenvironment of the Olympia beds based on fossil beetles from Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.1
- Geradflügler und Wasserkäfer der oligocänen Ablagerungen von Rott1
- Pleistoceńskie owady z Borysławia1
Each of the 8 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Oreodytes
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Udo Schmidt
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Oreodytes was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Oreodytes”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDeronectina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Seidlitz 1887)